Andrew Bird

Nomenclature

Just think of the lives you could swap with

Your own

While you're selling your coats

You're sewing your own

You know it's not the easy way

Sometimes you have to pay to play

With fingerpaints and macrame

It's time we asked the see and way



Could you bring a different nomenclature

Now the colors have bled to grey

To ones that don't exist in nature



Our nomenclature's washing away

Washing away

But did it carry you away

Carry you all away

Bum bum bum



But did it carry you away

Nomenclature's washing away

Washing us all away